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The United States is producing and exporting extra liquefied pure gasoline, or LNG, than ever earlier than. Last 12 months, the nation grew to become the world’s largest exporter of the superchilled fossil gasoline — a growth that’s elevating pressing questions in Washington, D.C. and nationwide in regards to the function that U.S.-made LNG ought to play on the earth’s power future.
On Wednesday, I joined The Weather Channel’s climate-focused weekday present Pattrn to elucidate how that debate is enjoying out in South Texas. In an interview with meteorologists Jordan Steele and Felicia Combs, I mentioned my latest reporting from the Texas Gulf Coast, the place builders are planning two large LNG export terminals and two associated gasoline pipelines.
Some native officers and enterprise leaders assist the tasks. Yet many group members — together with Indigenous leaders, environmental activists, metropolis council members and residents — are nervous that the LNG infrastructure will hurt the area’s pure surroundings and threaten folks’s well being, whereas additionally exacerbating the local weather disaster. (See extra scenes from South Texas on this companion photograph essay.)
Watch the video beneath.
